The Big Dipper

Ingredients
½ cup
Mott's Healthy Harvest Country Berry apple sauce
½ cup
lowfat vanilla or plain yogurt
2 cups
fresh fruit chunks
8 bamboo skewers

To prepare dip, blend apple sauce with yogurt in small bowl until thoroughly combined. Divide fruit chunks evenly and place on skewers to form fruit kabobs. Place kabobs on serving plate with dip alongside. Cover and chill until ready to serve.
Makes 8 servings.

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Paint Away May

Rock Painting


Golf balls or Ping-Pong balls also work well for this activity.


Materials
· Shoebox with lid or diaper-wipe container
· Paper
· Scissors
· Tempera paint
· Rock


Directions
1. Cut a piece of plain paper or construction paper to fit the bottom of the shoebox or diaper-wipe container.
2. Pour a small amount of paint into a dish and dip a rock in the paint.
3. Place the rock into the shoebox or container and shut the lid.
4. Shake the box up and down and from side to side.
5. Open the lid and look at the design the rock has made.
6. Dip the rock in another color of paint and repeat the shaking procedure until your child tires of it.
Family Education

Paint Away May

Rainbow Painting


The wet paper really makes the colors flow and blend for a beautiful effect.


Materials
· Paper
· Water
· Wide paintbrush or sponge
· Paints or washable markers


Directions
1. Paint a sheet of paper with water using a wide paintbrush or a wet sponge.
2. Your child can paint lines of color across the page with paints, or draw on it with washable markers.

Paint Away May

Frosty Soap Painting


Materials
· 1 cup powdered laundry soap
· 1/2 cup cold water
· Electric mixer or wire whisk
· Food coloring (optional)
· Paintbrushes
· Heavy paper or cardboard


Directions
1. Beat or whisk cold water and laundry soap together until stiff.
2. Add food coloring or leave white if using colored paper.
3. Paint with a brush or use as fingerpaint on heavy paper or cardboard.
4. Let dry flat.

Paint Away May

CLING WRAP PAINTING Supplies: Paper, Cling Wrap, and Paint

Drizzle paint all over paper.

Place Cling Wrap over paint and using hands rub towards edges of paper.

Materials
· White paper
· Paint
· Spoons
· Plastic cling wrap

Directions
1. Using a spoon, dribble paint onto the paper. Use several different colors.
2. Place a sheet of plastic cling wrap over the paint (make sure the cling wrap covers the whole surface).
3. Use your hands to smooth the cling wrap over the paper, then carefully peel it off.
4. Allow the painting to dry.